Amanda Tooth – Consultant, Trainer and Coach

About me

Welcome to my website. If we’ve not met already you may want to know a little bit about me.

My background is rich in experience, and my skills are broad. The ‘golden thread’ that connects everything I do is that I support people and organisations to achieve their full potential.

I started my working life as an actress and drama coach. In reality that meant a career spent doing a wide variety of jobs, some coaching and a little bit of acting. I loved acting but found the industry frustrating and uncomfortably competitive. So in 1992, after much thought I decided to change direction and take a step into the unknown. I committed myself to a four year part-time post-graduate Diploma in Criminology and started working at a women’s probation hostel.

The next 4 years were hard work balancing a full-time job as a Support Worker and completing my vocational diploma in criminology (no first degree in criminology available at that time). Once qualified I undertook various roles in the voluntary and charity sector developing, delivering and managing services for justice involved people. The people supported by these services had multiple needs including experience of homelessness, substance misuse, structural inequalities, marginalisation and trauma.

Whilst I loved working in the voluntary and charity sector my next move was a strategic commissioning role with, what was then the Inner London Probation Service (soon to become the London Probation Service). As the Partnership Manager for Housing and Homelessness I worked in partnership across London with many wonderful people and organisations developing services for justice involved adults and young people.

My drive for personal growth led me to undertake more training during this period. I was particularly interested in developing an understanding of trauma and recovery. Over the next two decades I completed practitioner training in; coaching, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Behaviour Techniques, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Action Learning.

In May 2008, it was time to follow my heart and once again take a leap into the unknown and go it alone. It made sense that my desire to understand trauma, recovery and person-centred practice had led me to the point where I wanted to immerse myself in work that I was truly passionate about. I wanted to support people and organisations to provide person-centred trauma-informed leadership and services.

Today, I am blessed to be able to do the work I love. On a corporate level I work across sectors, throughout the UK and internationally – with extensive experience of the Gulf Region. I provide personal, flexible, forward-looking solution-focused consultancy and dynamic training programmes. My approach remains at all times person-centred, trauma-informed and client-led.

As a Progressive Coach and Action Learning facilitator my aim is to enable people to identify and address the blocks that prevent them from fulfilling their full potential.

In the last 16 years the world has changed significantly and I am aware of how lucky I am to have been able to successfully navigate a number of rather tricky and challenging periods. I have developed an exciting and diverse international client-base and have had the privilege of collaborating with a number of inspiring colleagues on exciting and fulfilling projects.

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I work independently and as an associate with a number of organisations. I work across sectors (including public, private, NGO, VCS) and throughout the UK as well as internationally. Areas of specialism and expertise include; criminal justice, housing and homelessness, partnership working, commissioning and contracting, trauma-informed practice, strategic and organisational development, workforce and leadership development.

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